Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	die_v	think_v	4,534	5	4.2966	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66476	A sermon preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, June 9th, 1695 before His Grace the Marquess of Tweddale His Majesties High Commissioner and before many of the nobility, barrons and burrows, members of the High Court of Parliament, and the magistrates of the said city / by David Williamson ...	Williamson, David, d. 1706.	1695 (1695)	Wing W2797; ESTC R8132	22,801	28

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